The regulator of the students’ loan scheme, Higher Education Students Financing Board (HESFB) has approved Tourism and Hospitality Management programmes under the students’ loan scheme.
This was communicated by the Executive Director of HESFB, Mr. Michael Wanyama after the 30th meeting of HESFB that sat on 31st March 2022.
The tourism and hospitality sector has been identified by the successive National Development plans including the current NDP3 and vision 2040, as one of the fundamental pillars of Uganda’s economy and key growth drivers with the greatest multiplier effect.
“In the pre-pandemic season, the sector growth had hit as much as 7.3% of GDP and 6.3% of total employment,’’ he explained.
‘’We hope that with the support of training in the tourism and hospitality sector, Uganda as a country will be able to achieve the target contribution of tourism to total employment from 667600 to 1,100,000 people as anticipated by the NDP3,’’ Wanyama concluded.
HESFB was established by the government of Uganda through the ministry of education and sports to offer education support to underprivileged students who are willing to proceed with higher education after completion of S6.
Since its inception, the board has been supporting mainly science, technology, engineering and mathematics programmes, except for PWDs who can undertake any course of their choice under affirmative action.
For more information about the newly added programmes under loan scheme, visit the board website; www.hesfb.go.ug
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